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Gates of Vienna News Feed 10/16/2010

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has joined the head of the Bavarian CSU, Horst Seehofer, in declaring that Multiculturalism has failed. Ms. Merkel hedged her declaration a bit — she insisted that Islam is a “part of Germany”, and only called for “integration” rather than assimilation.

However, the fact that she dared to utter the f-word — “failure” — when discussing Multiculturalism is extremely significant. The taboo has been broken.

In other news — also in Germany — a primary school teacher was suspended for inadvertently giving pork schnitzels to some of her Muslim students.

Thanks to 4symbols, C. Cantoni, DF, Gaia, heroyalwhyness, JD, McR, SF, Takuan Seiyo, TB, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

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